Anthropology 101 Chapter 10

kinship.

A network of relatives within which individuals possess certain mutual rights and obligations is called:

Descent groups are associated with all of the following except:​

​they make all laws for the state.

All of the following are types of descent except:​

institution.

Which of the following is not a Maori cultural concept?

​namus

In what country do we find aboriginal Maori people?​

​New Zealand

In the Biocultural Connection box Maori Origins, what was the focus of the research on the Maori people?​

Connecting DNA types with the people's origin myths

Mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome studies of the Maori indicate that their creation myth telling of their origins from the ancient place of Hawaiki is consistent with an origin in:​

​Polynesia and Southeast Asia region.

When kinship membership is traced either through males or through females but not both, it is called:​

unilineal.

If you are a member of a patrilineal descent group:​

your sisters belong to the same patrilineal descent group that you do.

All of the following statements regarding a lineage are correct except:​

​it always involves a totem.

You belong to a patrilineal descent group. Which of the following belong(s) to the same group?​

Your father's sister

An extended unilineal descent group whose members claim descent from a common ancestor but who cannot trace their genealogical links to that ancestor is called a(n):​

clan.

Among the Han, brothers and their sons were part of the same household and paternal uncles were like second fathers. What type of descent is this?​

Patrilineal

All of the following statements about Han genealogy are correct except:

the tsu is a corporate kin group that traces its ancestry back about five generations through the female line.

A clan is similar to a lineage except:​

clan members are unable to trace exact genealogical links to their common ancestor.

Matrilineal descent groups are associated with farming societies in which _____ perform most of the labor in the house and gardens.​

​women

boy is born into a society that practices matrilineal descent. The person who exercises authority over him is his:​

​mother's brother.

Among the Hopi, which of the following functions as a landholding corporation, allocating land for the support of member households?​

Lineages​

Among the Yako of Nigeria, an individual might inherit grazing lands from his father's patrilineal group, and livestock and ritual knowledge from his mother's matrilineal group. This is an example of which kind of descent?​

Double

A young man of Jewish affiliation moves to New York City to find a job. Seeing no reason to "go it alone," he calls everyone he knows from both his mother's and father's side of the family, and attends various meetings to which he is invited. He is invited to multiple events and gatherings by virtue of his being related to various ancestors on both parents' side. These groups support him when he runs out of money and help him find an apartment and a job. We can say that he is a member of either a bilateral descent group or which of the following?​

Ambilineal

Bilateral descent is commonly found among all of the following except:​

tribal societies.

What are honor killings?​

​Murder condoned by the genealogical group in order to retaliate for shame of unapproved sexual activity

The Turkish honor killings that van Eck studied were occurring in which country?​

​Netherlands

Namus is another name for:​

Turkish honor.

Approximately how many Micmacs are members of the Aroostook band today, according to official criteria?​

​1,200

What was the primary purpose of advocacy anthropology among the Micmac?​

To help them obtain official tribal recognition

Which anthropologist worked with the Aroostook band of Micmacs in Maine?​

Harald Prins

Through what practice do lineages develop new alliances within the larger social system?​

​Exogamy

The splitting of a descent group into two or more entities is called:​

​fission.

A totem is all of the following except:​

​found in all societies that have lineages.

Clans, because they may have members living in many different villages, depend on _____ to provide symbolic identification and promote solidarity.

​totems

A phratry is a unilineal descent group composed of two or more _____ that believe they are related to each other.​

clans

Members of a moiety:​

belong to one of two major descent groups in a society.

North Americans assume that they are related equally to the relatives on both the mother's and father's side. The group composed of such people to whom these individuals feel that they belong is called what kind of descent group?​

Bilateral

In kinship studies, EGO refers to:

he center of a kindred.

If two people are given the same kinship term, this means that:​

​they occupy a similar family status.

In which kinship terminology are ego's "brother" and "sister" distinguished from "cousins" and both father's brother and mother's brother are given the same kinship term, "uncle"?

Eskimo

The Hawaiian system of kinship terminology is usually associated with what type of descent?​

Ambilineal

In _____ kinship terminology, the term "brother" is given to ego's brother, father's brother's son, and mother's sister's song; a different term is used for the sons of father's sister and mother's brother. "Mother" refers to ego's mother and mother's sister; "father" refers to ego's father and father's brother. Separate terms are used for mother's brother and father's sister.​

Iroquois

​New reproductive technologies are:

changing the traditional understandings of kinship.